Daniel Paul Schreber(1842-1911)was once the Presiding Judge in the Saxon Court of Appeal and a doctor of law in Germany,until he was afflicted with a severe mental illness in 1884.He was given the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.His delusional systems involved intimate contact with God and the overwhelming desire to become a woman and to be impregnated by God.He repressed his homosexuality throughout his life.He published an autobiographical account of his mental illness in 1903 in a book entitled Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken(Memoirs of a Nervous Illness),which soon became a classic of psychiatric literature commented on by Sigmund Freud,Carl Jung and other psychoanalysts.
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